This affecting comedy about getting old and out of touch is set in the near future and finds Frank Langella in good form as an elderly former cat burglar of legendary reputation, long-divorced and living alone in upper New York State. The querulous Frank is in the early stages of dementia and at odds with a changing world and is not best pleased when his son gives him a gleaming white robot to care for him.

But gradually a strange friendship grows up between criminally minded man and ethical machine, as Frank returns to burglary with the robot as his smart new accomplice. The robot gives an ironic twist to Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics", and the movie is highly enjoyably for three quarters of the way. It then runs out of steam and opts for a general sadness about geriatrics and cybernetics.